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Stephen Grossberg STEPHEN GROSSBERG Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Professor of Mathematics, Psychology, and Biomedical Engineering Director, Center for Adaptive Systems Boston University 677 Beacon Street Boston, MA 02215 (617) 353-7857 (617) 353-7755 [email protected] http://cns.bu.edu/~steve HIGH SCHOOL: Stuyvesant High School, Manhattan First in Class of 1957 COLLEGE: Dartmouth College, B.A. First in Class of 1961 A.P. Sloan National Scholar Phi Beta Kappa Prize NSF Undergraduate Research Fellow GRADUATE WORK: Stanford University, M.S., 1961-1964 NSF Graduate Fellowship Woodrow Wilson Graduate Fellowship Rockefeller University, Ph.D., 1964-1967 Rockefeller University Graduate Fellowship POST-GRADUATE ACTIVITIES: 1. Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics, M.I.T., 1967-1969. 2. Senior Visiting Fellow of the Science Research Council of England, 1969. 3. Norbert Wiener Medal for Cybernetics, 1969. 4. A.P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1969-1971. 5. Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics, M.I.T., 1969-1975. 1 6. Professor of Mathematics, Psychology, and Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, 1975-. 7. Invited lectures in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, Scotland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and throughout the United States. 8. Editor of the journals Adaptive Behavior; Applied Intelligence; Behavioral and Brain Sciences (Associate Editor for Computational Neuroscience); Autism Open Access Journal; Behavioural Processes; Brains, Minds, and Media; Cognition and Brain Theory; Cognitive Brain Research; Cognitive Computation, Cognitive Neurodynamics; Cognitive Processing; Cognitive Science; Current Opinions in Cognitive Neurodynamics; IEEE Expert; IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks; Information Sciences; International Journal of Cognitive Science; International Journal of Humanoid Robotics; International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems; International Journal of Neural Systems; International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness, and Knowledge-Based Systems; Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience; Journal of Experimental Neuroscience, Journal of Mathematical Psychology; Journal of Theoretical Neurobiology; Mathematical Biosciences; Mind and Society; Neural Computation; Nonlinear Analysis. 9. Editorial board member of the book series Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing, Springer-Verlag; Mathematical Modeling: Theory and Applications, Kluwer. 10. Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Neural Networks, 1987-2010. 11. Founder and First President of the International Neural Network Society and member of the founding INNS Board of Governors, 1987-1988. 12. Founder and Director, Center for Adaptive Systems, Boston University, 1981-. 13. Principal Investigator, Boston Consortium for Behavioral and Neural Studies (Congressional Center of Excellence), 1986-1993. 14. Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University, 1989-. 15. Founder and Chairman, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University, 1991-2007. 16. IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award, 1991. 17. Boston Computer Society Thinking Technology Award, 1992. 18. INNS Leadership Award, 1992. 19. Fellow, American Psychological Association (APA), 1994. 2 20. Principal Investigator, Center for Automated Vision and Sensing Systems (Congressional Center of Excellence), 1995-2000. 21. Fellow, Society of Experimental Psychologists (SEP), 1996. 22. Information Sciences Award, Association for Intelligent Machinery, 2000. 23. Principal Investigator, Center for Intelligent Biomimetic Image Processing and Classification (Congressional Center of Excellence), 2001-2007. 24. Charles River Laboratories prize, Society for Behavioral Toxicology, 2002. 25. Fellow, American Psychological Society (APS), 2002. 26. Membership in Acoustical Society of America, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Mathematical Society, American Psychological Association, American Society for Engineering Education, Association for Behavior Analysis, Association for Psychological Science, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures Society, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Cognitive Science Society, European Neural Network Society, International Neural Network Society, Memory Disorders Research Society, New York Academy of Sciences, Optical Society of America, Organization for Computational Neuroscience, Psychonomic Society, Schizophrenia International Research Society, Sigma Xi, Society for Artificial Neural Networks in Medicine and Biology, Society for Computational Modeling of Associative Learning, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Society for Mathematical Biology, Society for Mathematical Psychology, Society for Neuroscience, SPIE, Vision Sciences Society. 27. INNS Helmholtz Award, 2003. 28. Principal Investigator, Founding Director and Chairman of the Governing Board, CELEST: Center of Excellence for Learning in Education, Science, and Technology (an NSF Science of Learning Center), 2004-2009. 29. IEEE Fellow, 2005. 30. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Inaugural Fellow, 2008. 31. Advisory Board member for the new Springer journal Cognitive Computation, 2009. 32. Member, Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science and Engineering, Boston University, 2011. 33. Steering Committee, Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology (CompNet), Boston University, 2011. 3 34. INNS Fellow, 2012. PATENTS 1. Carpenter, G.A. and Grossberg, S., U.S. Patent #5,142,590: Pattern recognition system. Filed: November 27, 1985. Issued: August 25, 1992. European Patent #0244483; Issued: July 15, 1992. 2. Carpenter, G.A. and Grossberg, S., U.S. Patent #4,914,708 and #5,133,021: System for self- organization of stable category recognition codes for analog patterns. Filed: June 19, 1987. Issued: April 3, 1990 and July 21, 1992. 3. Carpenter, G.A. and Grossberg, S., U.S. Patent #5,311,601: Pattern recognition system with variable selection weights. Filed: January 12, 1990. Issued: May 10, 1994. 4. Carpenter, G.A., Grossberg, S., and Reynolds, J.H., U.S. Patent #5,214,715: Predictive self- organizing neural network. Filed: January 31, 1991. Issued: May 25, 1993. 5. Carpenter, G.A., Grossberg, S., and Rosen, D.B., U.S. Patent #5,157,738: Rapid category learning and recognition system. Filed: December 19, 1990. Issued: October 20, 1992. 6. Grossberg, S. and Cohen, M.A., U.S. Patent #5,040,214: Pattern learning and recognition apparatus in a computer system. Filed: March 8, 1989. Issued: August 13, 1991. 7. Grossberg, S. and Mingolla, E., U.S. Patent #4,803,736: Neural networks for machine vision. Filed: July 23, 1987. Issued: February 7, 1989. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS BOOKS 1. Editor, Mathematical psychology and psychophysiology. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, 1981 (co-distributed by Erlbaum Associates). 2. Studies of mind and brain: Neural principles of learning, perception, development, cognition, and motor control. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1982. 3. Neural dynamics of adaptive sensory-motor control: Ballistic eye movements (with M. Kuperstein). Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1986. 4. The adaptive brain, I: Cognition, learning, reinforcement, and rhythm. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1987. 5. The adaptive brain, II: Vision, speech, language, and motor control. Amsterdam: North- Holland, 1987. 4 6. Neural networks (with G.A. Carpenter). Optical Society of America, Special Issue of Applied Optics, 1987. 7. Neural networks and natural intelligence. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988. 8. Neural dynamics of adaptive sensory-motor control: Expanded edition (with M. Kuperstein). Elmsford, NY: Pergamon Press, 1989. 9. Neural network models of conditioning and action (with M. Commons and J. Staddon). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1991. 10. Pattern recognition by self-organizing neural networks (with G.A. Carpenter). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991. 11. Neural networks for vision and image processing (with G.A. Carpenter). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992. 12. Models of neurodynamics and behavior (with J.G. Taylor). Tarrytown, NY: Elsevier Science Inc., 1994. Special Issue of Neural Networks. 13. Neural networks for automatic target recognition (with H. Hawkins and A. Waxman). Tarrytown, NY: Elsevier Science Inc., 1995. Special Issue of Neural Networks. 14. Neural control and robotics: Biology and technology (with R. Brooks and L. Optican). Oxford, UK: Elsevier Science Ltd., 1998. Special Issue of Neural Networks. 15. Spiking neurons in neuroscience and technology (with W. Maass and H. Markram). Exeter, UK: Elsevier Science Ltd., 2001. Special Issue of Neural Networks. 16. Vision and brain (with D. Field and L. Finkel). Exeter, UK: Elsevier Science Ltd., 2004. Special Issue of Neural Networks. 17. Social cognition: From babies to robots (with A. Meltzoff, J. Movellan, and N. Newcombe). Oxford UK: Elsevier Science Ltd., 2010. Special Issue of Neural Networks. ARTICLES 1. Nonlinear difference-differential equations in prediction and learning theory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1967, 58, 1329-1334. 2. A prediction theory for some nonlinear functional-differential equations, I: Learning of lists. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 1968, 21, 643-694. 5 3. A prediction theory for some nonlinear functional-differential equations, II: Learning
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